Deceased Alaska Aviators Identified

FORT RICHARDSON, Alaska – Five Fort Wainwright Aviators were killed in Iraq Tuesday.

Staff Sgt. Sean Fisher, Staff Sgt. Reynolds, Spc. Steven Jewell, Chief Warrant Officer Christopher Johnson, and Chief Warrant Officer Jackie McFarlane were killed August 14 in a CH-47 Chinook helicopter crash in the vicinity of Al Taqaddum Air Base, Iraq.

Fisher, 29, of Santee, Calif., was a flight engineer who joined the Army in June 2002 and was assigned to Fort Wainwright in February 2003.

Reynolds, 37, of Rock, W. Va., was an aircraft power plant repairman who joined the Army in March 2002 and was assigned to Fort Wainwright in December 2002.

Jewell, 26, of, Bridgeton, N. C., was CH-47 repairman who joined the Army in August 2005 and was assigned to Fort Wainwright in April 2006

Johnson, 31, of Grandville, Mich., was a CH-47 pilot who joined the Army in August 2004 and was assigned to Fort Wainwright in January 2006

McFarlane, 30 of Virginia Beach, Va., was a CH-47 pilot who joined the Army in August 1994 and was assigned to Fort Wainwright in August 2006.

The aviators were assigned to Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment, Task Force 49

The cause of the incident is under investigation.

Next of kin have been notified.